Johnson Appointment, and Richard Townsend Gray Letters
TitleJohnson Appointment, and Richard Townsend Gray Letters
ReferenceIE 627/U62
Date
1849, 1854, 1871
Production date 1849 - 1871
Scope and Content1. 11 Dec 1871 Photocopy of MS. official appointment of Noble William Johnson as Captain of the North Cork Rifles by Edmond Burke, Baron Fermoy, Lord Lieutenant of County Cork. (1p)
2. 12 Dec 1854 Photocopy of MS. letter from [R.T. Gray] (Richard Townsend Gray) from the 'Camp before Sebastapol', to his mother. Refers to the Battle of Inkerman. (4pp)
3. 22 Oct 1854 Photocopy of MS. letter from [R.T. Gray] (Richard Townsend Gray) from the 'Camp before Sebastapol', to his mother. Refers to Siege of Sevastopol. Sends love to all at Myrtle Hill [Lower Glanmire Road, Cork]. (4pp)
4. 22 May 1849 Photocopy of MS. letter from Richard Townsend Gray, 70th Regiment, Dum Dum, Calcutta, India, to his mother and to his sister Milly. He is anxious to know how they are all getting on 'in Old Ireland'. He arrived in Calcutta after a 'long tedious passage'. Calcutta is beautiful and it would be a splendid country to live in were it 'not for the tremendous heat and the Cholera'. The Regiment 'was immediately sent to Dum Dum after disembarking as the cholera was so bad in the Fort, but several of the men are dying of it up here as well...'. To Milly he writes that the 'ladies here are all very pale' as they keep within doors during the hot season. Refers to the 'splendid' Government House and a ball to be held for the Queen's birthday. The natives here are 'handsome' but very small. He has seen some good carriages but nothing to the carriages in England. 'We have taken part of a [kingdom] with a native prince', who is kept a prisioner by the English government; etc. (4pp)
2. 12 Dec 1854 Photocopy of MS. letter from [R.T. Gray] (Richard Townsend Gray) from the 'Camp before Sebastapol', to his mother. Refers to the Battle of Inkerman. (4pp)
3. 22 Oct 1854 Photocopy of MS. letter from [R.T. Gray] (Richard Townsend Gray) from the 'Camp before Sebastapol', to his mother. Refers to Siege of Sevastopol. Sends love to all at Myrtle Hill [Lower Glanmire Road, Cork]. (4pp)
4. 22 May 1849 Photocopy of MS. letter from Richard Townsend Gray, 70th Regiment, Dum Dum, Calcutta, India, to his mother and to his sister Milly. He is anxious to know how they are all getting on 'in Old Ireland'. He arrived in Calcutta after a 'long tedious passage'. Calcutta is beautiful and it would be a splendid country to live in were it 'not for the tremendous heat and the Cholera'. The Regiment 'was immediately sent to Dum Dum after disembarking as the cholera was so bad in the Fort, but several of the men are dying of it up here as well...'. To Milly he writes that the 'ladies here are all very pale' as they keep within doors during the hot season. Refers to the 'splendid' Government House and a ball to be held for the Queen's birthday. The natives here are 'handsome' but very small. He has seen some good carriages but nothing to the carriages in England. 'We have taken part of a [kingdom] with a native prince', who is kept a prisioner by the English government; etc. (4pp)
Extent4 items
Persons keywordJohnson, Noble William | North Cork Rifles 1871, Gray, Richard Townsend | Lotaville | Captain, Crimean War | fl1849-1854, British Army, 70th Regiment, Calcutta, India, 1849, North Cork Rifles
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